Elizabethton Spring Formal

I hope you enjoy the slideshow from Elizabethton's Spring Formal!
To view it full screen, click HERE.
To view the gallery, click HERE. The password is elizabethton

The Spring Formal dinner was held at The Coffee Company in Elizabethton. [Those are syrups/flavorings in the background of the first image. :) ]

Elizabethton Spring Formal

Wesley & I photographed the Elizabethton church of Christ Spring Formal for the second year in the row this weekend. Here's their sneak peek!

This is an awesome opportunity to provide the youth!
The dinner was held at The Coffee Company in downtown Elizabethton.

Hard at work!

A very famous Hollywood actress was present. :)

All of the attendees

With the volunteers-what a crazy bunch!

The after events were at the Elizabethton church annex.

More to come soon!

Spring Formal

We had a great time at the Spring Formal in Cleveland!
Here's my favorite image of the night.
We were sitting at our table and one of the girls said, "Fire, fire," in the calmest voice. We looked and one of the programs was in flames........this is after we stopped most of the damage.
Jeff's face cracks me up!

Enjoy the slideshow below or click HERE to view it full screen.
To view the full gallery of images, click HERE. The password is eastside.

East Side Spring Formal

On Saturday evening, Brittany, Wesley, & myself had the wonderful opportunity to document the 5th Annual Spring Formal. It's THE Prom Alternative for Cleveland, TN, area youth. Here's the sneak peek I promised!

The Spring Formal was held at the Cleveland Country Club. The staff did a great job taking care of us for the evening.

Here's a peak at some of the great group that was in attendance.

East Side minister Jeff Archey has done a fabulous job planning the Spring Formal for 5 years. This was his last year as planner, but I am sure he will still be a great helper!

The opening entertainment was Cody Whaley from the Union Grove congregation. He did a GREAT job!

NeanderPaul was also part of the entertainment. I had never heard of looping before. It's pretty cool. Check him out on Youtube.

Senior Walk

East Side Spring Formal Attendees, I hope to have all of the pictures edited, slideshow up and gallery online soon! Be sure to email me (denise@skeltonphotography.com) if you want to be emailed when they are available (if you didn't give me your email address Saturday night).

Cleveland Spring Formal

***LINK FOR ALL IMAGES HAS BEEN ADDED AT THE BOTTOM**
About 2 weeks ago, Wesley & I had the wonderful opportunity of helping with the Spring Formal in Cleveland. The funny thing is, we had been planning to help with this one and had been communicating back and forth over the plans, etc. when we found out about the Elizabethton Spring Formal-thankfully it was the week before. So, we had 2 Spring Formals in 2 weeks! That WORE us OUT! :) I decided I am old.......at least I feel old!
But, we had such a great time.
Here is the "sneak peek" for the Cleveland Spring Formal. I am so appreciative for the patience of those who have been waiting for this post. We had 2 hard drives crash the week after, so that slowed me down on the post-processing. Thankfully, all of my images are safe....but more on that later. For now, here's a recap of our fun "Night at the Museum."

The East Side congregation has been putting on this great prom alternative-THE Prom Alternative-for youth in the Cleveland area for four years now. The night is planned by the East Side folks and is funded completely by donations of area church members. The response was so great this year that ALL Seniors were able to go FREE and there's another little surprise coming for all of the attendees.
Spring Formal was held at the Museum Center at 5ive Points in Cleveland.
The food was catered by Creme de la Creme Catering (the great Victoria King from East Side and her sister, Amanda).

After dinner was an "It's Magic" show by Larry Mason. He is from Cleveland and he was great!

After the magic show, our dear friend Andy Sneed had a real treat for us. Andy worked tirelessly on an amazing American Idol show! Members from East Side, Union Grove, and Central all got together and taped some "Good" and "Bad" American Idol auditions. Andy had the whole show ready on dvd and had the auditions with input from real American Idol judges. I don't know when I have laughed that hard!
There were even a few parents of attendees who made a surprise appearance.
Once we had watched the dvd, the American Idol judges arrived to participate in the Cleveland Idol.

Of course I HAD to put this picture on the blog-do you recognize that sweet baby on the laptop?! That's my Maggie!

Paula really got into the performances.

The Spring Formal attendees selected Melissa Kyle as the 1st Cleveland Idol.
She won a glamorous prize of a stick of gum.
Be sure to check out the slideshow below for pictures of Melissa, Jana (Maggie's mommy), and Tommy (Brittany's husband) performing.

Everyone changed clothes and got ready for some more fun times.

There were all sorts of games including:
~Food relay race-they all divided into 4 teams and each person had to run across the room, grab a paper sack and eat whatever was inside.
Anything from pretzels to Fruit by the Foot to baby food prunes. Yum.....
~Another relay race-still divided into 4 teams, they had to run across the room, pick a card and do whatever was on the card.
~There were more, but those were my favorite two!~

This was hilarious.
This guy got the card pictured above and when he was about halfway through we realized he was screaming, "I LOVE Leonard Dicaprio."
That would be one reason I feel old-kids these days don't know who Leonardo is????!!!!!

Britt and I at the end of a long, but FUN, night! :)
I really appreciate all of Brittany and Wesley's help. I was worn out by the end of the night and my wrist was bothering me so badly-Wesley just took the camera and took over for awhile-and he got some GREAT shots!

I hope you all enjoy the SLIDESHOW of my favorites.
Check back tomorrow for a link for all of the images- I will post it in this post.
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Cleveland Spring Formal-Sneak Peek

Saturday, Wesley and I had the privilege of helping with the Spring Formal in Cleveland. That's right, TWO Spring Formal weekends in a row! I promised a sneak peek would be up today. I am sorry it's just now getting up at 10 pm, but we have had computer issues. It may take a little while longer to get the full post up, but hopefully I will be able to post it by next Tuesday. Stay tuned!

Elizabethton Spring Formal

**EDITED TO ADD link of ALL images at the bottom of this post**
4-20-08
Is this a great looking group or what?

Hmm..okay, I don't know about that group though..............

Last Saturday, the First Annual Spring Formal was held in Elizabethton. The elders at our congregation saw the need for a prom alternative for our teenagers.
This event was put together by a group of hard-working, thoughtful individuals in about two months. I was absolutely amazed (not that I had any doubts!) at how fabulous everything went and how beautiful everything looked.
We started out with a photo hour at the church building and got all of those "formal" pictures out of the way. Then, we headed to House of Ribs in Johnson City for a wonderful meal, time of fellowship, senior honors, and crowning of the Spring Formal King and Queen.


After dinner, we went back to the church annex. The annex was transformed into a candlelit coffee house. The work put into this transformation and part of the evening was spectacular. There were almost 20 volunteers there fixing desserts, setting up games, and preparing to serve the attendants. It was great!
After a short devotional, we had a contest in which each group created a formal gown out of tissue paper, pipe cleaners, ribbon, and I don't even know what else.
The creations were pretty interesting!

The American Idol panel of judges stopped by to help us out!
That was pretty entertaining to say the least!

The rest of the evening was full of Rockband, Wii, yummy desserts, and a LOT of fun!

Even the adults got in on the fun!

This is the group of volunteers who were on hand that night. Thanks to Madison for snapping this shot for us!
Enjoy the slideshow to see our whole night unfold!
To those who attended, watch your email box for a link for all of the images-hopefully sometime this weekend or the first of next week!
**Click HERE to see ALL of the images!**

Elizabethton Spring Formal Sneak Peek

Saturday, Wesley and I had the wonderful opportunity to help out with the Elizabethton church of Christ Spring Formal. This prom alternative was a great event for our youth.
There are MANY, MANY more pictures to come, but I know the teens (and volunteers!) are waiting to see these.

Come back tomorrow or Thursday for a complete recap and slideshow of our big night!